Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!dave From: dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Rumour from INFOWORLD: Mac Plus Message-ID: <508@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 12:25:10 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.508 Posted: Wed Dec 11 12:25:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Dec-85 03:19:58 EST Reply-To: dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) Distribution: net Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 22 The 12/9/85 issue of INFOWORLD has details on a new Macintosh supposed to be introduced a few days before the MacWorld exposition in mid-January. No prices were included; the article also mentioned a 68020 based color Mac to be introduced in March. Developers (e.g., GCC) are quoted as saying they have them and will announce products for the Mac+ in the Exposition. Summary of Mac Plus (from memory): * Up to 50% faster * 1 Mbyte Memory, expandible to 4 Mb * SCSI bus * 800 Kb double-sided disk drive * 128 Kb ROMS, with HFS * Same case (and display) * New keyboard, with numeric keypad standard. I want to know when I can get one!! What a Smalltalk/Lisp/Prolog machine ... -- David Brownell EnMasse Computer Corp ...!{harvard,talcott,genrad}!enmasse!dave